Browsing Month »March, 2016«

Every woman knows only too well the tyranny of the modern-day beauty regime. After all, the average female is said to spend nearly two years (722 days) during her lifetime exfoliating, shaving, waxing and plucking her body to perfection. A new trend may be taking our pursuit of hairlessness to extremes, however. Arm shaving – […]

TOKYO Asian shares rose on Thursday, taking early cues from Wall Street gains overnight, as receding worries of near-term U.S. interest rate hikes continued to buoy risk sentiment. The dollar hovered near seven-week lows versus the euro as cautious comments from Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen earlier in the week on monetary tightening continued to […]

Comerica Bank reduced its position in shares of Symantec Co. (NASDAQ:SYMC) by 6.7% during the fourth quarter, Holdings Channel reports. The institutional investor owned 185,661 shares of the company’s stock after selling 13,437 shares during the period. Comerica Bank’s holdings in Symantec were worth $3,804,000 at the end of the most recent quarter. A number […]

It’s been a disastrous year for Portola Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:PTLA) thus far, as the company has shed over 60% of its value year-to-date. However, far from spurring investors to flee the stock, it appears to have created a great buy-low opportunity, as evidenced by James Flynn‘s Deerfield Management hiking its stake in the company to 3.09 […]